HEC Paris press coverage from all over the world
HEC Paris Professor of European Law Alberto Alemanno says that the EU scheme is problematic partly because there is no equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines or even tests, in an interview with PRI's 'The World' radio show.
“The Covid-19 restrictions induced some candidates to choose programs closer to their home,” says Andrea Masini, associate dean for MBA programs at HEC Paris. He reports a 36 percent increase in applications from France in 2020. This led to a “significant” uptick in the number of Europeans students compared to 2019, writes Find MBA.
Between the wars, Keynes was bursar of King’s College, Cambridge, one of the richest in England, and had the freedom to deploy the considerable assets in its portfolio. Until then, Oxbridge endowments had been invested almost entirely in real estate, but Keynes decided it was worthwhile moving into other assets, because property was riskier than it looked. Whatever you think about his ideas on macroeconomics, this point is very true. This shows up clearly in a new paper called The Rate of Return on Real Estate, by David Chambers of the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, Christophe Spaenjers of HEC Paris and Eva Steiner of Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business, which is based on data throughout the 20th century for the endowments of four colleges, writes Bloomberg.
Wirecard is not the only example of short sellers sniffing out fraud far ahead of regulators, auditors and the public. In fact, in one study by researchers at HEC business school, as many as 50 percent of the companies targeted by the sample of short sellers were delisted, suspended or subsequently went bankrupt, writes The Hill.
New research by HEC Paris professor Ioanid Rosu and Wake Forest University professor Fahad Saleh highlights how, contrary to what is presumed, “Proof-of-Stake governance” tends to maintain cryptocurrencies’ level of decentralization in the long run, writes AIthority.com.
Study management in Paris in the middle of the Corona pandemic? That sounds like a bad timing. But looking back, Sven Mengering sees the virus-related state of emergency almost as a stroke of luck. In 2020, the 31-year-old quit his job as a management consultant at PwC, and since September has been enrolled at HEC Paris to pursue an MBA at the renowned business school, writes German publication Handelsblatt.
In the face of rapid transformation and increasing uncertainty, the ability to improvise has become more important than ever. But what does it take to develop improvisational skills? Based on over two years of observations and interviews, HEC Paris Marketing Professor Kristine de Valck identifies three distinct types of improvisation which players generally develop sequentially: imitative, reactive, and generative improvisation, in an article for Harvard Business Review.
HEC Paris Economics Professor Tomasz Michalski discusses the management of the Covid-19 crisis and the vaccination campaign in Europe, in an interview with Sina Finance.
According to Andrea Masini, Associate Dean for HEC Paris' MBA programs, MBA applications at the school grew by 23% this year, partly because covid restrictions pushed some candidates to choose programs closer to home, he says in an interview with El Pais.
Though already considered France’s most environmentally-friendly business school, HEC Paris continues to raise the bar with ongoing recycling & waste reduction initiatives. The business school, just 17km from the center of Paris, kick started plans to have a zero-waste campus in mid-2020, writes Clear Admit.
